How much has DOT obligated in the District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov lists $56,469,157,142.19 in Department of Transportation obligations across 4,397 DC-coded awards. Agency 069 × DC is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a map of District streets. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Transportation in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. $56,469,157,142.19 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 4,397 awards.

Does this mean $56 billion was spent on D.C. roads and transit?

No. Place-of-performance can follow a headquarters address. $56,469,157,142.19 is DOT-awarded obligation coded to DC on 4,397 records, not a local infrastructure invoice. This packet publishes only the Department of Transportation (agency 069) join inside District of Columbia coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $56,469,157,142.19 and 4,397 together.

Is the District treated like a state in this file?

The geography key is DC, the same field other joins use for states. The 4,397 awards and $56,469,157,142.19 are still an agency × geography intersection from USAspending.gov. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $56,469,157,142.19 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 4,397 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Transportation in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Transportation are the parents. All spending ties lists other pairs. District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Transportation are parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $56,469,157,142.19. Obligations are not outlays.

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Department of Transportation federal obligations in the District of Columbia

The Department of Transportation shows $56,469,157,142.19 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to the District of Columbia, across 4,397 awards. Awarding-agency 069 plus DC geography is the pair. A headquarters city can collect place-of-performance tags that do not mean every dollar was poured into District streets. The figure is an obligation join, not an outlay and not the District’s local DOT budget.

Key figures

DOT in D.C.: $56,469,157,142.19 across 4,397 USAspending awards.
Implied mean about $12.8 million per record.
DC coding can reflect headquarters administration, not only local projects.
Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays or the District budget.

Transportation awards tagged to DC

Two keys define the cell. Awarding agency is Department of Transportation, CGAC 069. Geography is the District of Columbia. The product is $56,469,157,142.19 and 4,397 awards. A Federal Highway award coded to Maryland is out. A Defense award coded to DC is out.

Four thousand three hundred ninety-seven records against $56,469,157,142.19 imply about $12.8 million per award. Headquarters contracts, multi-state vehicles administered from a DC address, and local-looking actions can share that mean. This packet does not say how many of the 4,397 rows funded District pavement.

Department of Transportation in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending is the all-agency DC hub. All spending ties lists other joins. Headquarters coding is the standing caveat on this cell. $56,469,157,142.19 can include national vehicles administered from a DC address. The 4,397-award count does not mean 4,397 District street projects. Department of Transportation in District of Columbia is the overlay for the coded pair, not a pavement inventory.

Headquarters geography is not a road map

Place-of-performance can follow the awarding office. A national program administered from a DC address may carry the DC tag while work occurs in fifty states. $56,469,157,142.19 is therefore not “how much DOT spent on District infrastructure.” It is how much DOT-awarded obligation was coded to DC.

WMATA, the Metro, and District-owned streets are not named in the packet. Do not assign the 4,397 awards to those systems. Correlation of a capital-city tag with a Transportation total is not causation, and it is not a pothole inventory. The District is not a state. This join still uses the same USAspending geography field other state-agency pages use. The overlay path keeps DC as the geography key. Formula grants that later flow to states can still carry a DC tag if the recipient or office sits in the District. That is a coding outcome, not a finding that the District captured other states’ highway money. District of Columbia federal spending still includes every awarding agency, not only 069.

Obligations versus cash in the District cell

Grant and contract vehicles can obligate in DC coding and outlay on a different calendar. $56,469,157,142.19 is the commitment sum. Citing it as money already spent on District projects confuses obligations with outlays.

The District’s local budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with agency 069’s 4,397 awards leaves USAspending.gov. Four thousand three hundred ninety-seven DOT records tagged to the District can include national programs administered from a DC office. $56,469,157,142.19 is therefore not a reconstruction invoice for District streets. Department of Transportation in District of Columbia reports the coded pair. Formula funds that later leave the District can still appear here if the award carried a DC tag.

What the DC Transportation hub will not show

Ward-level maps, modal splits (highway versus transit versus aviation), and formula-grant allocations by state are unpublished here. $56,469,157,142.19 and 4,397 awards stay on the DC tag.

Department of Transportation is the 069 hub without a DC filter. Use it when the question is the national Transportation book. Use this page only for the DC intersection.

Citing DOT in the District of Columbia

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (069) obligated $56,469,157,142.19 on 4,397 awards coded to the District of Columbia. Name both the agency and the District. Note that DC coding can reflect administration as well as local performance.

If Department of Transportation in District of Columbia has moved, quote the overlay. The implied mean near $12.8 million is dollars divided by 4,397 records, not a typical paving contract. District of Columbia federal spending is the all-agency parent. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent. All spending ties indexes other joins. Do not per-resident $56,469,157,142.19. Population is unpublished. Keep the obligation word when you cite the cell.

How to reuse the DC Transportation integers

Cite Department of Transportation, District of Columbia, $56,469,157,142.19, and 4,397 awards. All spending ties lists other pairs. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without a DC filter. Do not add those parents to this cell.

Do not per-resident the $56,469,157,142.19. Population is unpublished. Do not convert the total into lane-miles. Do not treat 4,397 as unique vendors. Those readings leave USAspending.gov. Later ingests can move both integers. Prefer the overlay when this snapshot disagrees. Keep the obligation label. A DC tag is geography coding, not a complete map of where work occurred.

Questions

How much has DOT obligated in the District of Columbia?: USAspending.gov lists $56,469,157,142.19 in Department of Transportation obligations across 4,397 DC-coded awards. Agency 069 × DC is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a map of District streets. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Transportation in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. $56,469,157,142.19 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 4,397 awards.
Does this mean $56 billion was spent on D.C. roads and transit?: No. Place-of-performance can follow a headquarters address. $56,469,157,142.19 is DOT-awarded obligation coded to DC on 4,397 records, not a local infrastructure invoice. This packet publishes only the Department of Transportation (agency 069) join inside District of Columbia coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $56,469,157,142.19 and 4,397 together.
Is the District treated like a state in this file?: The geography key is DC, the same field other joins use for states. The 4,397 awards and $56,469,157,142.19 are still an agency × geography intersection from USAspending.gov. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $56,469,157,142.19 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 4,397 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.
Where is the live table?: Department of Transportation in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Transportation are the parents. All spending ties lists other pairs. District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Transportation are parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $56,469,157,142.19. Obligations are not outlays.

USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.